From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752029AbdFMEZm (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:25:42 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59544 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751846AbdFMEZl (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jun 2017 00:25:41 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 06:25:31 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Dilger, Andreas" Cc: "Drokin, Oleg" , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Lustre Development List Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: headers: potential UAPI headers Message-ID: <20170613042531.GB13308@kroah.com> References: <1482167207-22800-1-git-send-email-jsimmons@infradead.org> <20170103141248.GA8695@kroah.com> <20170117074140.GA19328@kroah.com> <20170121092459.GA29138@kroah.com> <32AAAA94-0C88-40F5-8FAD-37F35A401AC3@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <32AAAA94-0C88-40F5-8FAD-37F35A401AC3@intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 08:20:15PM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote: > On Jan 21, 2017, at 02:24, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:33:11PM +0000, James Simmons wrote: > >> > >>>>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 12:06:47PM -0500, James Simmons wrote: > >>>>>> Not for landing. This is the purposed UAPI headers > >>>>>> with the removal of unlikely and debugging macros. > >>>>>> This is just for feedback to see if this is acceptable > >>>>>> for the upstream client. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Signed-off-by: James Simmons > >>>>>> --- > >>>>>> .../lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_fid.h | 353 +++++++++++++++++++++ > >>>>>> .../lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_ostid.h | 233 ++++++++++++++ > >>>>> > >>>>> Can you make a lustre "uapi" directory so we can see which files you > >>>>> really want to be UAPI and which you don't as time goes on? I said that ^^^ > >>>> Where do you want them placed? In uapi/linux/lustre or uapi/lustre. Does > >>>> it matter to you? The below was to forth coming UAPI headers which from > >>>> your response you seem okay with in general. > >>> > >>> How many .h files are there going to be? It's just a single filesystem, > >>> shouldn't you just need a single file? If so, how about > >>> drivers/staging/lustre/include/uapi/lustre.h > >>> ? > >>> > >>> If you really need multiple .h files, put them all in the same uapi/ > >>> directory with a lustre_ prefix, you don't need a whole subdir just for > >>> yourself, right? > >> > >> We have 12 UAPI headers and yes they all begin with lustre_*. Okay I will > >> create a driver/staging/lustre/include/uapi/linux directory and start > >> moving headers there. > > > > 12 seems like a lot just for a single, tiny, filesystem :) > > > > But moving them all to a single directory will see where we can later > > merge them together, sounds like a good plan. > > Greg, > are you really adamantly against moving the Lustre headers into their own lustre/ > subdirectory? I did not say that. Please, when responding to 5 month old email messages, get your quoting correct... greg k-h